Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 09:58:41 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Jamie Bowden <jamie@itribe.net>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Good, cheap 100BaseT Ethernet cards? Message-ID: <4.1.19981215095742.06e2a490@mail.lariat.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.96.981215083520.18639j-100000@animaniacs.itribe .net> References: <199812150232.SAA01836@dingo.cdrom.com>
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That's 100BaseVG, an alternative 100 Mbps standard. It's better than 100BaseT when the LAN gets congested, but -- like Betamax -- did not win the standards war. --Brett At 08:39 AM 12/15/98 -0500, Jamie Bowden wrote: >On Mon, 14 Dec 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > >> Not AFAIK. 100bT and ISA just don't get along, and the NE2000 >> programming model is such that you max out at about 10Mbps anyway. > >I have one 100mbit ISA card. It's got a chip with both HP and AT&T's logo >on it. It has two rj-45 ports on it, one for 10mbit, one for 100mbit. >The chip is labled : > >100vg >1821-1400 >9427s 5543540 > >I have no idea who made it, or where it came from, as it was here when I >got here. I've never even put it in a machine to see how well it works, >but it's kinda cool, as I had never seen a 100mbit ISA card before. > >Jamie Bowden > >-- >Systems Administrator, iTRiBE.net > >If we've got to fight over grep, sign me up. But boggle can go. > -Ted Faber (on Hasbro's request for removal of /usr/games/boggle) > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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